Monica Potts is a writer who returned to her hometown in northern Arkansas to work on her new book, The Forgotten Girls.
She is a senior politics reporter for the website FiveThirtyEight. Her previous work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, among other publications, and on NPR. She was a 2015–16 New America Fellow and is a former senior writer with The American Prospect. She lives in Clinton, Arkansas.
At the Guardian Potts tagged ten top books about being poor in America, including:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonRead about the other entries on the list.
This masterpiece about the US’s racial stratification is an essential book about the country’s poverty. It explains how the US was founded explicitly as a racist system designed to keep the descendants of slaves on the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy, and all of the ways this caste system is perpetuated.
--Marshal Zeringue
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